Mark Leary is Professor of
Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Interdisciplinary Behavioral
Research Center at Duke University.

He obtained his B.A. from West Virginia Wesleyan College and his Ph.D.
in social psychology from the University of Florida. Dr. Leary has
taught at Denison University, the University of Texas at Austin, and
Wake Forest University, where he also served as department chair. His
research interests focus on social motivation and emotion, and on
processes involving self-reflection and self-relevant thought. He has
written or edited 12 books and over 200 scholarly articles and
chapters. He was the 2010 recipient of the Lifetime Career Award from
the International Society for Self and Identity and a 2015 co-recipient of the
Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

Dr. Leary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Association for
Psychological Science, as well as a member of the Society of
Experimental Social Psychologists, the International Association for
Relationship Research, the International Society for Self and Identity,
and the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists. He is former President of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology.

Dr. Leary was the founding editor of Self and Identity,
served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical
Psychology, and is former editor of Personality and Social
Psychology Review. He has also served on the editorial review
boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal
of Personality, Psychological Review, Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, Personality and Social
Psychology Review, Emotion, Psychological Review,
and Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.